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THE ANGLO-SAXONS AND THE VIKINGS - Coggle Diagram
THE ANGLO-SAXONS AND THE VIKINGS
THE ANGLO-SAXONS
OVER THE 5ᵗʰ AND 6ᵗʰ CENTURIES THE BRITISH WERE OVERWHELMED (SOPRAFFATTI) BY JUTES, ANGLES, SAXONS AND OTHER
THESE PEOPLES (POPOLI) ARE REFERRED TO AS ANGLO-SAXSONS
THEIR SOCIETY WAS FOUNDED ON:
THE CENTRE OF COMMUNAL LIFE WAS THE HALL
PLACE WERE THEY GATHERED (SI RIUNIVANO) AND SWORE LOYALTY TO THE CHIEFS IN RETURN FOR THEIR PROTECTION
LOYALTY
FOR THE FAMILY
FOR THE CLAN
CHRISTIANISATION
THE ROMANS HAD INTRODUCED CHRISTIANITY TO BRITAIN
THE ANGLO-SAXONS REINTRODUCED PAGAN VALUES
IN 597 POPE GREGORY I THE GREAT SENT A MONK, AUGUSTINE
TO BRING CHRISTIANISATION BACK TO ENGLAND
THIS MISSION WAS SUCCESSFUL
THE CATHEDRAL OF CANTERBURY WAS FOUNDED IN 602
AUGUSTINE BECAME THE FRIST ARCHBISHOP
THE MOST IMPORTANT ROLE WITHIN THE CHURCH IN ENGLAND
THE MONASTERIES BECAME IMPORTANT CULTURAL CENTRES:
THE CHURCH EDUCATED THE PEOPLE AND OFFERED THEM EFFICENT PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
THE DANES
WHILE THE ANGLO-SAXONS WERE FARMER
THE VIKINGS (DANES), THEIR SCANDINAVIAN NEIGHBOURS, WERE SEA PEOPLE
THE VIKING INVASION OF BRITAIN, IN 9ᵗʰ CRNTURY, HAD BECOME AN OCCUPATION
THE VIKINGS BEGAN TO SETTLE AND INTERMARRY
THEY ESTABILISHED DANELAW
A CODE OF DANISH LAWS
THEIR LENGUAGE BLENDED WITH THAT OF THE LOCAL POPULATION
WHEN THEY REACHED WESSEX THEY MET WITH OPPOSITION FROM KING ETHELRED AND HIS BROTHER ALFRED
ALFRED THE GREAT
WHEN ETHELRES DIED ALFRED BECAME KING OF WESSEX
HE DEFEATED THE DANISH COMMANDER
HE ESTABILISHED HIS CAPITAL AT WINCHESTER
LATIN TEXTS WERE TRANSLATED INTO ANGLO-SAXON AND THE
ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE
WAS COMMISSIONATED
IN 1015 THERE WAS ANOTHER DANISH INVASION
THE VIKING EMPIRE NOW EXTENDED FROM WESSWX THROUGH DENMARK TO THE NOTH OF NORWAY
THIS MARKED THE BEGINNING OF THE COLLAPSE OF SAXON ENGLAND
THE LAST ANGLO-SAXON KING WAS HAROLD, EARL OF WASSEX
HAROLD MANAGED TO DEFEAT THE DANES IN THE NOTH OF ENGLANG
BUT THEN HAD TO MARCH SOUTH TO FIGHT WILLIAM, WHO WAS CLAIMING THE ENGLISH THRONE, DUKE OF NORMANDY
HAROLD WAS KILLED AND THE ANGLO-SAXONS WERE CONQUERED BU THE NORMANS AT THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS
THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS
WILLIAM RULED THE DUKEDOM OF NORMANDY
HIS RULE WAS BASED ON THE OWNERSHIP OF THE LAND
WHICH HE GAVE TO HIS BARONS IN RETURN FOR MILITARY SERVICE
IN THE SPRING OF 1066 WILLIAM GATHERED HIS BARONS TO CLAIM THE ENGLISH CROWN
WILLIAM'S ARMY AND HAROLD'S SOLDIERS FACED EACH OTHER NEAR HASTINGS
ON 14ᵗʰ OCTOBER 1066
THE TURNING POINT OF THE BATTLE CAME WHEN HAROLD WAS HIT IN THE EYE BY AN ARROW AND THEN KILLED
THE ANGLO-SAXONS ESCAPED TO THE WOODS AND THE NORMANS DECLARED VICTORY
WILLIAMS WAS LATER CROWNED IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, IN LONDON, ON CHRISTMAS DAY